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Life Quotes by Neil Gaiman

172 Life quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Shadow crawled across the floor to a yellow foam‑rubber pad, a scene Neil Gaiman describes. He urges us to grow up and make our words matter, because stories that survive give us a sense of purpose. Gaiman also reminds us that each person has a unique voice to share with the world.

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We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

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Truly life is wasted on the living.

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A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

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Life without love is a shadow of things that might be

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

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Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

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“I missed her, deeply, painfully. But life goes on.”

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Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

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In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your…

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“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.”

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“I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.”

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“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.”

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“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.”

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“You’re thirty-two years old?” “Yes, sir.” “You look younger.” “Clean living.”

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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

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“This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break.”

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“He was close enough that Shadow could see his face: old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s…

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“What you have to remember,” said Mr. Ibis, testily, “is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like…

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I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets…

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“I fought for America. My country. I protected America. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Democracy. Not something you people have…

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“as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then…

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“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the…

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“done with the planets and the hills and the trees and the oceans and the lesser beasts. The cliffs that bound existence…

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I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,…

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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

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The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you…

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“You are the nearest thing I have to life. You are the only thing I have left, the only thing that isn’t…

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“The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died.…

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And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would…

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Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,…

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I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of…

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“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,…

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“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an…

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“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to…

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“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch…

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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid,…

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up…

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“It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a…

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“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.…

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“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in…

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”